DOI: 10.36347/sasjs

Pages: 25-29

Meningioma, so named by Harvey Cushing in 1922, is a group of heterogeneous tumors that arise from meningothelial cells. Meningiomas are predominantly benign tumors usually attached to the duramater that arise from the meningothelial cells of the arachnoids. Meningioma may be found along any of the external surface of the brain as well as within the ventricular system, where they arise from the stromal arachnoid cells of the choroid plexus. The objective is to evaluate the incidence of various histopathological variants of meningioma its, frequency in various parts of the brain, and its age and sex distribution. This is a retrospective study of 38 cases conducted in Yashoda Hospital, Malakpet for the period of 2 years from August 2013 to July 2015. A total of 38 cases of meningioma were studied. Most common variant is meningothelial meningioma, 16 cases (42%), grade I consisting of 36 (94.7%) cases and the most common site is intracranial. Female predominance is seen in meningioma.